Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the heart attacks and strokes?

Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by mrfusion on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:11PM (#23098082)

Should the media have some of the blame for these deaths by scaring people? Cherry picking young corona deaths, up playing tenuous studies saying corona causes diabetes and strokes, replaying stock footage of overloaded hospitals.

If they gave people accurate statistics they could make an informed decision whether they want to go to a hospital.

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Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by yongjik on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:35PM (#23098272)

Wow, you just jumped from an unexplained drop of ER vists straight to blaming the media for scaring people.

More than 70k have died in the US so far - are we also going to blame the media for not scaring people early enough, or is that too inconvenient?

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Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by closeparen on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:20PM (#23098981)

People are failing to seek treatment for the acute life-threatening emergencies they are almost certainly still having. It’s good that they’ve been convinced of the seriousness of COVID-19, but not that they view the threat of potential infection in the hospital as more serious than an actually-occurring heart attack or stroke.

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Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by newacct583 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:10PM (#23099286)

This is objectively wrong, just by numbers. Covid deaths alone, in areas where this has been studied, are routinely outnumbering deaths due to all other causes. Even granting the premise, there aren't enough heart attacks and strokes to make these deaths "not worth it".

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Re:Eerie emptiness of ERs worries doctors: where are the hea... by guscost on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:22PM (#23098174)

Yes.

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